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John Scott Campbell

A mid-century science-fiction writer whose work blends speculative ideas with big questions about identity, belief, and power. Best known today for The Image and the Likeness, he wrote the kind of story that turns pulp-era adventure into something stranger and more thoughtful.

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The Image and the Likeness

The Image and the Likeness

by John Scott Campbell

About the author

John Scott Campbell is the author of The Image and the Likeness, a science-fiction novel originally published in the November 1952 issue of IF Worlds of Science Fiction and now available through Project Gutenberg. The story is set in a post-war Asian landscape and mixes anthropology, religion, politics, and giant-scale speculation in a way that feels very much of its era.

Reliable biographical information about Campbell is surprisingly scarce in the sources available online, so only a few details can be stated confidently. Based on the record attached to the Project Gutenberg edition, his known work in the public domain is tied to classic magazine science fiction of the early 1950s.

That makes him an interesting rediscovery for listeners who enjoy vintage speculative fiction: the kind of author who may not be widely documented, but whose surviving work still offers atmosphere, ambition, and unusual ideas.